ジュディスのサイキックメッセージVol.12〜人生をどのように生きるか〜The way you are living your life.

余暇活動というのはどれも楽しく、それ自体に価値があります。ただ、他にもやりたいことはたくさんあったりすると、いまの経験を置き去りにして急いで次の活動に移りやすいものです。

 

The way you are living your life has a revelation for you.

We have meaning in our very being, in the course of our lives many events happen to obscure it.
And different people choose diverse and varied ways to live, learn, play and enjoy the days allocated for leisure.

It is not difficult to understand why many people have a passion for sports, for it is inspiring to play a game to the best of your ability as it is to watch the highest achievement in sports. It is a metaphor of what is possible in human endeavour.

And even to observe sport either being present or lounging on a chair in front of the TV we can feel a certain amount of participation and this in turn can lift up spirit and energies.

Watching a close game between teams can cause our own adrenalin to react. Adrenalin is a substance which your body produces when you are scared or excited. It makes your heart beat faster and gives you more energy.

We live in a culture which expects us to do things and produce results.

When I was asked the question:

 

What was a pre-occupation for many people throughout many lands before we became so modern.?

Was it fishing? 

Many people say that what they most love to do is fish.

Fishing is the leisure activity with a high participation and why do people go fishing in such extraordinary numbers and with such intense devotion?

It is not because we are hungry whereas years ago it was necessary and sometimes no fish at all are caught.

What can be the allure of the countless hours spent waiting at times in discomfort for uncertain reward.

It is possible to see people fishing from boats, standing in cold high waves, sitting on jetties, in oceans, near rivers. And fishing enthusiasts travel to very remote areas in search of the perfect stream.

People who fish are quite devoted to it and in a quiet way are preoccupied and detached.

But why?

There are few activities as conducive to contemplation as fishing. Is it possible that people do not actually go fishing to catch anything? Is it because they love to fish in order just to be.

People fishing are mostly quiet, gentle in movement and speech, the stillness broken only by regular casting,

They are gazing at the water and the sky,

They are taking these things in, even in company there is a degree of solitude and silence and of course fishing crosses boundaries of race, language and age.

Fishing provides a deeply desired excuse to be still, to wait beside the water and feel the transformation take place,

as slowly another level of consciousness arises.

A calming of the spirit, deep thoughts are acknowledged and they feel fulfilled in a way that is difficult to describe but of immense important to those who fish.

And of course people fish in water – a powerful icon and a symbol of the unconscious – there is a sense of communion with nature. Waiting, relaxing, simply being, many could say it is similar to meditation.

And effective opportunity for some care of the soul.

 

You may find another part of life where you can find yourself.

At times placing our concentration into learning something new extends us.

It is not simply the building of these experiences that is important, but the capacity to take them in so that they become a part of your memories and continue to sustain you when they are no longer happening.

Many activities in leisure are enjoyable and of themselves valuable at the time however it is easy to leave these experiences behind and hasten on to the next of many activities on your list, thus your days can become a blur of activity with little of spiritual nourishment and life becomes a series of tasks that are never completed. And it is possible that you can become totally absorbed in the tasks on your list, so much so that they begin to lose their meaning.

Our thoughts can become so consumed with what we ‘think’ we want to try our communication and relationships can be neglected.

 We can even miss the fact that we are absorbed and heedless of the other people in our lives and their feelings.

It is important to identify what is really meaningful and allow the time to do it. In this modern very busy world it has become more complex to give ourselves permission to take the time we need for replenishment. Modern technology is rapidly helping to take it away as people find their mobile has become an extension of themselves and are always on call or work.

At some level you know about this need when you refer to something as being good for the soul, without knowing that you may mean this quite literally.

Not everyone will want to buy a fishing line and take off to catch a fish; fishing has been used as an example. There are many, many other pursuits that can also give the same serenity and reflection.

It may even be necessary to try quite a few different past times before you find ‘the one’ that will give you the atmosphere and quality that nourishes that inner part of you.

 

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